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Is HDCD dead?

I'm looking at players on this site and hardly none of them seem to encode "HDCD".Is this used in some of the newer players yet?In the past the cd's that had the HDCD label on them all sounded better than regular redbook cd's.Why are'nt more players using this technology.Does anyone have a list of players that use HDCD encoding?
spaz
psacanli
535 posts
 
Eldartford,
there is no reason why HDCD could not work for multichannel, think it over.
scramman
43 posts
 
Here's a new twist ... As mentioned above, Windows Media Player does HDCD. I use a USB DAC to get that signal into my system. Jerry does sound good floating 8 feet above the speakers.

The Jerry Garcia box set is all HDCD, as are the live releases from the estate (of JG). The Dead were mentioned above as being in HDCD.

If you like the Cheese, Bill Nershi & Liza Oxnard - It's About Time (2001) is HDCD.

Neil Young - Live at Massey Hall 1971 is HDCD? What a clean sounding recording this is for a live show. I'm going to have to get that on CD.

I get a lot of my tunes off the newsgroups. Anyone else do that? If it sounds good enough I'll get a used copy.

Any bluegrass in HDCD? Let me know.
eldartford
4,262 posts
 
Psacanli...The encoding technology of HDCD could indeed be applied to multichannel recordings, DVDA and SACD. But these are already significantly higher resolution than a CD, so why bother? A HDCD (CD) cannot be multichannel.
eldartford
4,262 posts
 
On second thought it isn't applicable to SACD because they are not PCM code.
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